Dissention Quotes & Sayings

These neighborhood was our first home as a community but, once Italians began to gain status as "full" Americans, they moved out of the communities that they co-habited with other immigrants and people of color. The rootedness in this community shifted into a dissention of difference and of privilege. In order for Italian-Americans to mark their new social location under assumed "Whiteness," they had to make a physical move away from the marginal communities of color. The discussion ended in my favor but would mark the beginning of a long struggle of unpacking the internalized oppression and discrimination that marked my family's identity of "White"-working class-Italian-Americans learning to assimilate while keeping their hyphenated identity. Learning to build bridges between my different borders and my passions has been a continual process for me. — Lachrista Greco

You know what else that settles then tonight. This hue and cry and controversy that has been spawned by the devil to try and bring dissention within the body of Christ that we are gods. I am a little god. — Paul Crouch

What you experience is the accumulation of what you have thought about and wished for. — Steven Redhead

What shell did not feel the sound waves and which bird did not face at least once the wind? — Sorin Cerin

To offset a depersonalized society, consumers crave recognition of their individuality. — Faith Popcorn

There are two ways to be rich: 1. Acquire great wealth 2. Acquire few needs. — Doris Janzen Longacre

When a man solved his problems by punching them, books were often a foreign thing. — Brian McClellan

My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job. — Jarrett J. Krosoczka

People to people contact is essential for Nations to come closer. — Narendra Modi

If you can't go where people are happier, try to make people happier where you are. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Of all the screams cataloged in the encyclopedic audio library of the Hidden Schools, Tara's bore the closest resemblance to the scream of a man whose abdomen was being devoured by a jagged-clawed insect that wore a child's face. After — Max Gladstone

45 Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. 46 And he said, "Yes, it was written long ago that the Messiah would suffer and die and rise from the dead on the third day. 47 It was also written that this message would be proclaimed in the authority of his name to all the nations,[*] beginning in Jerusalem: 'There is forgiveness of sins for all who repent. — Anonymous

God's Word is absolutely true. You may not understand how God is going to bring about what He's promised you, but He is keeping every promise that He has ever made. He will never deceive you or disappoint you, and He will never change His mind about what He's told you. — Charles Stanley

As the storm moved closer it broke into hundreds of pieces so that the rain fell here and there from the high clouds in long, curving gray plumes. It looked like maybe fifty or sixty fires scattered over the city, except that the tall, smoky columns were flowing in reverse. — Barbara Kingsolver

This is how it starts, among the closed circles of the marooned, the shipwrecked, the besieged: jealousy, dissention, a breach in the groupthink walls. Then the entry of the foe, the murderer, the shadow slipping in through the door we forgot to lock because we were distracted by our darker selves: nursing our minor hatreds, indulging our petty resentments, yelling at one another, tossing the crockery. — Margaret Atwood

We have much in common, whether Jew, Muslim, or Christian, only God can judge among us. And yet the church sows dissention and bloodshed. — Helen Bryan

I always got very excited about the Masters as a kid. I could hardly wait until the Wednesday when you'd get the BBC's preview. And I'd then be glued to the screen until Sunday night. — Rory McIlroy

Need is the destiny of want. — Matshona Dhliwayo